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As always, voluntary response data are worthless. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5538059 Good luck to all of you looking for higher salaries. I hope you gain the salary you desire, and more knowledge of statistics along the way.
Agreed. Consider: those who don't read HN are probably worse engineers that earn lower salaries, on average.
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Agreed. Consider: those who don't read HN are probably worse engineers that earn lower salaries, on average.
some of the best engineers i know don't read HN and they definitely make more money than me. They did read a lot of newsgroups in their twenties.
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Agreed. Consider: those who don't read HN are probably worse engineers that earn lower salaries, on average.
Confirmation bias 101? This is probably the most "echo chamber" friendly statement of any I've seen here. An assertion with no evidence, seemingly rooted in a self satisfying sense of superiority, based on the bizarre proposition that the only way to stay ahead in the field is by reading HN. The idea that a popularity contest might tell you stuff that's actually ahead of its time is arguably naive. It's not like we h…
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They don't have money to throw around. Probably would have given you meaningful (lifechanging?) equity tho.
"Lifechanging" only if you win the startup lottery. 95% of YC startups fail.
Can we leave any percentages and probability out of this conversation? Think of the children!
pg, please disable polls. They seem to give no useful info whatsoever, while taking up valuable front page real estate.
It seems silly to ignore stock and bonuses. My base salary is only ~$150k, but with stock and bonuses I'll make over $260k this year (Google). Would this compare with a job that also gives a $150k salary but nothing else?
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some of the best engineers i know don't read HN and they definitely make more money than me. They did read a lot of newsgroups in their twenties.
Yeah, but back then, you could read all the newsgroups. You'd finish and there'd only be a couple posts that propagated to your UUCP node while you were reading.
It seems silly to ignore stock and bonuses. My base salary is only ~$150k, but with stock and bonuses I'll make over $260k this year (Google). Would this compare with a job that also gives a $150k salary but nothing else?
you guys did notice that this account was created 1 hour ago, right?
Even check glassdoor to verify: http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engin...
146k base + 32k cash + 41k stock = $220k (everyone gets bonus and stock). And this averages data before the raise Google gave everyone.